Emily

HASU/ASU Speech and Language Therapist - views my own. NHS 💙

[Artur Nadolny @ArturNadol7566]

HE PROTECTED 54,000 DOCTORS. THE @NHS PROTECTED ITSELF.

In January 2014, Dr Chris Day (@drcmday) was working overnight in the intensive care unit at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich. Two locum doctors didn't show up. The unit was running at double the patient load the national guidelines allow. He raised the alarm. He reported unsafe staffing. He linked the situation to two patient deaths.

That's what the NHS calls a whistleblower.

What followed was eight years of litigation, a legal battle all the way to the Court of Appeal, and over £700,000 of public money spent by Health Education England (@NHSE_WTE) and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (@LG_NHS) trying to stop his case being heard at all.

Here's the really elegant bit. HEE's opening legal argument wasn't that they'd done nothing wrong. It was that whistleblowing law simply didn't apply to them, because they didn't directly employ junior doctors. They were just the organisation that controlled the career progression of every single one of England's 54,000 junior doctors. Totally different thing.

Dr Day fought that argument to the Court of Appeal and won. The law was clarified. All 54,000 junior doctors below consultant grade in England now have statutory whistleblowing protection. One man, crowdfunding against three QCs, changed employment law for an entire profession.

No formal apology from the NHS. No reinstatement. No path back to a consultant career. He has worked as a locum A&E doctor ever since, doing overnight shifts while his opponents collected salaries, pensions, and the occasional glowing tribute to NHS transparency.

During the 2022 tribunal hearing, the communications director at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust deleted up to 90,000 emails. The director whose entire NHS email archive was also deleted during live litigation happened to be the instructing legal client in the case. The tribunal described the conduct as extraordinary. Nobody was prosecuted. The trust issued a partial apology about a press release.

The system did exactly what it always does. It absorbed the cost, deflected accountability, and waited for the man it destroyed to run out of money or energy.

He hasn't.

Sources: The Guardian | @BBC | BMJ | Westminster Confidential @davidhencke | Protect @WhistleUK | @BylineTimes | @CrowdJustice

[hera۶۟ৎ @herainhistory]

If I had been taught in primary school that Amelia Earhart died because men ignored dozens of distress calls from her, that would've been a lot more helpful to my life than growing up scared of the Bermuda Triangle. smh

[Ankor Inclán @ankorinclan]

Dijo una vez Liam Neeson sobre Natasha Richardson: “Me dijeron que tenía daño cerebral irreversible. Ver la radiografía fue impactante. Estaba conectada a soporte vital. Entré a su habitación y le dije: ‘Te amo, cariño, pero no vas a volver de esto. Te golpeaste en la cabeza. No sé si puedas escucharme, pero vamos a hacer lo siguiente: te llevaré de vuelta a Nueva York, vendrá la familia y nuestros amigos’. Ambos habíamos hecho un pacto: si uno de nosotros entraba en estado vegetativo, el otro lo desconectaría. Así que cuando la vi con esos tubos, de inmediato pensé: ‘Ella ya se ha ido’. Donamos tres de sus órganos, así que está manteniendo a tres personas con vida. Su corazón, sus riñones y su hígado.”

[💖L @Lau91x]

“she’s got mental health” brotherrrrrrrr when are people going to learn to say this sentence correctly 😭😭😭😭

[Hannah @hlnewey]

So we have a staff group who are disproportionately exposed via occupation to infectious diseases, psychologically distressing situations, bullying culture, who will undergo their own chronic health disease events, and you're wondering why the avg is 19 days off...

Enlightening.

[Jack Fletcher @fletchjack]

This is awful.

The NHS cut the number of radiology trainees between 2022 and last year.

4011 qualified doctors applied for just 356 jobs in radiology last year.

That means we turned away 3655 doctors whilst scans are piling up.

Cuts to training numbers don’t help anyone.

[Nurses Against Dick Pics. 🪷🇺🇦 @ClaudetteGGibs1]

For the first time in program history, the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery service at Johns Hopkins was led by an all-Black team of senior residents.

Between us, there are five MDs, two PhDs, and six master's degrees-but more importantly, a shared commitment to serving the people of Baltimore.

We are Black history.
We are our ancestors' wildest dreams.
And we're just getting started.

FROM: lawrencebrownmd

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackDoctors #BlackSurgeons
#Hopkins #Surgery

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨HOLY FU*KING HELL: A physician’s sworn affidavit just destroyed the official narrative.

He says he ran to the scene, identified himself as a doctor, and BEGGED to help Alex Pretti.

ICE agents blocked him, demanded a physician’s license, and still weren’t performing CPR.

When he finally got through, he found Pretti on his side with multiple gunshot wounds in his back and started CPR himself.

That’s the story: they shot him… then wouldn’t let a doctor treat him.

Case 0:25-cv-04669 | Doc. 109 (filed 1/24/26)

[Monisha Rajesh 🍉 @monisha_rajesh]

Even if Alex Pretti wasn’t a kind, harmless ICU nurse with no criminal record and a penchant for helping people he still didn’t deserve to be murdered. No one does, including so-called “illegals”.

[John McAllister @john_mcal]

There simply cannot be a World Cup there in less than 6 months time

[dr. alicia andrzejewski (she/her) @aliciaandrz]

this made me sob. this is our country, too. this is a vision worth fighting for.

[Маделейн . @normalmadeline]

ICE detained this father who was the caretaker to his severely disabled son. His son has died since his father was taken into detention. Disabled people and their families are uniquely vulnerable to ICE’s barbaric abuses

[Dr. Ann Olivarius @AnnOlivarius]

Might "his now ex-wife" have her own name worth mentioning in the post, Sky News?

Her name is Joanne Young and her bravery is as noteworthy as her rapist's depravity.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i don’t think there was enough media coverage on this. i can’t get over how massive this was

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

I actually dont care if he saved puppies from a burning house while curing cancer in a steel mill.

You do NOT have to be a “good person” for it to still be WRONG for the police to kill unarmed people. I’m NOT going to play into that

[BlackRedGuard ☭ 🇵🇸🔻⛓️‍💥 @OGBlackRedGuard]

I don’t think DWB has ever left a conflict. This is incredibly bad.

[Alasdair MacLullich @A_MacLullich]

Falls prevention in over 65s.

#falls

[The SNP @theSNP]

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.